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Title: Anti-RMT spam spam Post by: Nerf on February 07, 2008, 12:59:36 PM As I signed onto DDO this afternoon, I was greeted with a lovely message from turbine, which basically amounted to
"Please don't buy gold, pretty please? With sugar on top? It's umm, bad" Which really got me thinking, why not just send out their OWN spam, that looks surprisingly like all the other spam, and when someone places an order on their bait website, they get a nice month long timeout or so (it doesn't actually charge them for the gold, so no fraud) Basically, instead of trying to go after the farmers, just make the players deathly afraid of actually buying gold. Thoughts? Title: Re: Anti-RMT spam spam Post by: Lantyssa on February 07, 2008, 01:04:19 PM Were it my company, I wouldn't want to get into the legal morass of proclaiming to offer a service and not delivering or asking for a credit card number even if it's dumped.
Title: Re: Anti-RMT spam spam Post by: Nerf on February 07, 2008, 01:11:32 PM Well, I suppose you *could* actually deliver it, and then just ban them. Imagine the forum rants on that shit.
Title: Re: Anti-RMT spam spam Post by: Draegan on February 07, 2008, 01:23:18 PM That sounds like fraud or something.
Title: Re: Anti-RMT spam spam Post by: Lt.Dan on February 07, 2008, 01:33:36 PM More like a stupid tax. You could even put up a confirmation window when they receive the gold in-game.
Title: Re: Anti-RMT spam spam Post by: tmp on February 07, 2008, 03:49:05 PM Isn't DDO like, all instanced dungeon crawls and stuff? Just not sure why they'd even care in that particular game about people farming or buying the gold...
Title: Re: Anti-RMT spam spam Post by: Venkman on February 07, 2008, 07:47:09 PM Entrapment.
It also misdirects attention to the wrong part of the issue. Any game with any amount of DIKU and gear progression in it by nature compels RMT in enough people to form a huge industry around it. So either you draft off of that (Korean model) or design a different game (FPS, for example). Otherwise, all you're really doing is flipping farmers the bird with one hand while collecting their subscription fees in the other. This is not truly a problem that is going to be fixed. Title: Re: Anti-RMT spam spam Post by: IainC on February 08, 2008, 01:34:26 AM Interestingly one of the biggest games for unsanctioned RMT (at least here in the West, I don't claim to have a strong overview of the Korean market) is Runescape. A D&D clone by the numbers browser based game.
Title: Re: Anti-RMT spam spam Post by: shiznitz on February 08, 2008, 10:45:33 AM Entrapment Entrapment is not applicable in civil law as far as I know. It is purely a criminal thing, meant to protect civilians from government abuse. Abetting your customers' violation of the EULA so that you can punish them is probably not good for the legal authority of EULAs in the long run. |